Digital VS Physical

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Adding to my post - Those saying physical is cheaper or the same price of digital is simple. Digital on consoles is still expensive because companies want you to buy the store copy first because its cost them more to write on disc and supply the stores with. The moment we remove physical copies from store shelves digital will take off and if you have ever used Steam before you will see the benefits of there sales they offer every week.

Sure its nice to have a box and disc with our purchase but lets be honest here. Are we playing the game or are we too busy looking at the box art? They don't supply booklets anymore, you require day one patches to run your game most times and instead of eating up hard drive space, your eating up your actual house space. Install the games you want to play and the other games sit there waiting for a simple click of the download button. Its a much better convenience in my opinion then trying to search though 100s of games and then having to carefully place the disc in your drive to play it.

We don't own the games anymore like gamers like to think. Games are run off servers and there networks now. You can own all the games on a disc but if the company shuts down there network and you require a day one patch to play it, it becomes useless and goes back to my point about becoming junk. Hard copy games were great in the cartridge days, ever since CDs and the internet, its become nothing more then an old habit then a benefit.

This is just my opinion, again I own 100s of hard copy games but I am now losing interests in collecting them because I don't see the point anymore. A great example is I can go over seas, visit my friend who owns a X1 or a PS4 and log in to my account and download the games straight off his machine (as long as I have purchased the game on my account) and it saves me bringing over boxes of games or rebuying them at the store. This is a great point because I recently went interstate and my mate had a X1 which I used to play my games on and it cost us nothing except download memory which he had heaps of.